National Affairs: Pitiable and Contemptible!

And on the ninth day Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long, political god to the
electorate of Louisiana, rested. His filibuster against the Glass
banking bill was over.

The spectacle Senator Long had made of himself and the Senate stirred
revulsion in and out of the Capitol. Many were the Democratic oaths
sworn over the cloakroom cuspidors. Senator Tydings threatened to
resign from the Senate and "let some one else from Maryland come here
and look on if he wants to." Arkansas' Senator Robinson. Democratic
Floor Leader, fairly boiled with indignation and disgust. Already the...